Encrypt a Folder in Mac OS X

Note that versions of this same tutorial appear at TidBITS and in Macworld magazine now, and in Chinese too.

If you want to keep certain files on your Mac from prying eyes (have a company laptop that might get stolen?), it's not too hard to create an encrypted disk image that you can open with a password at login, and which acts like a folder once you've done that. I did that today at my work at Navarik, and these pictures show the process, in order.

Once you've set this up, whenever you log out, or if you eject the virtual disk, no one can get at the data in it without the password.

VIEWING TIP: If you're watching the slideshow of these images, you can click any screenshot to pause and read the accompanying caption.

Now available in Chinese too.

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items are from 16 Jun 2006.